1.pg.22. "So, in five seconds, he was born, he lived, and he died". In this text i believe "he was born" meant that there was hope for him to survive because of the Vorga, "he lived" meant that he thought of getting to saftey and how he would no longer have to face death, and "he died" meant that when the Vorga left he no longer had a chance of survival and that he was going to die. -Taylor Vladic
Taylor, I agree with what you had to say about what "he was born" and "he lived" means, but I have a slightly different opinion of what it meant when the author said "he died." i believe that instead of him no longer having a chance for survival as you suggested, the author was implying that he died inside. He lost all hope, his spirits were crushed, he was incredibly disappointed... ect. good post (: -Janelle Meadows
I agree with both Taylor and Janelle. I believe everyone would feel the same emotions, thinking that you are being saved from somewhere that you have been at for over six months and then realize you really aren't getting saved. The "he was born" and "he lived" means being excited for leaving this place. "He died" meaning that he wasn't getting saved and he lost all hope. - Jess Koch
i agree on this too. i think that he was excited to go and everything, but then lost his hope because he wasn't going to be saved.
its actually sad considering he was there for so long. - Haley Kline
I personally like the fact that after the Vorga passed him up he had pure hatred for them and wanted revenge on them which gave him the will to survive and find a way out of his terrible situation. -Nathan Kovach
2. Pg. 23. " In the control room he taught himself to use the few navigation instruments that were still unbroken, studying the standard manuals that littered the wrecked navigation room." I think that he is really doing anything he can to save himself. He is really taking a big risk by staying outside his room for long periods of times, but if he didn't, he would die, either way he has a chance of dying. If you were him, would you take that risk, or would you wait to see if Vorga would return, or guess that you are going to die and hope that maybe another ship comes and rescues you? -Bryant Sell
I think I would just stay in my room and wait for the Vorga to return. I wouldn't take the risk of dying and in the book he keeps blacking out and hallucinating, these things can cause brian damage and I don't think i would want/could take that chance. I would rather stay the same as before, you will eventually die if Vorga doens't come so why put yourself through that? _ Paiton Nipps
Bryant, you brought up some great points. I also believe that Gully wanted to survive from this misfortune. Also, having the will power to try to rescue himself and hold on to dear life is the best trait anyone could have! Gully, in my eyes, is not worthless. I think later in the novel, he'll prove that he isn't just an average Joe and Gully will prove that he has special talents like everyone else. -Heather Gibson
A: I dont think that I would wait and see if another ship comes to rescue me. That would be time waisted when I could have been doing something else to try and save myself. Yes, there is a chance of dying either way but if he tries to save himself instead of waiting, he will have a better chance of surviving. He does have a good chance because he uses different devices to help him get through, like the harness he created for himself and also what he taught himself.-Ashlee Carson
3. Pg. 23. "He would be a war prisoner, but he had to stay alive to settle accounts with Vorga-T:1339." What do you think he will do to "settle accounts" with Vorga if he remains alive? -Ashlee Carson
I wouldn't be very happy with worga either. so whatever he does would seem logical to me.
but when you are stuck somewhere alone like that for so long, and that happens to you, who knows what your
reaction would be to that. - Haley Kline
A: I think that he is willing to be a war prisoner if it means at least getting out of space and on some soild ground.I mean i wouldn't really care but then again i would want my freedom, so its kind of a win lose situation. If he ever did find the Vorga there really is no telling what he might do to them for not rescuing him and getting him off that piece of crap that he called a home for so long. -- Jameson Holsinger :)
I agree with Jameson on this one, but he isn't as driven by freedom as he is by revenge. I think that he'll go to all extremes in order to exact his revenge upon Vorga, and I don't think that he'll care what happens to him. Rather, I think he'll just destroy Vorga, even if it requires destroying himself. - Christian Graham
I agree with Christian because i believe that he will do anything he can to bring vorga down. At this point i think Foyle could care less about living or dying, all he is concerened with is revenge. -Taylor Vladic
5. Pg. 25. "He left the engine room and struggled forward in desperate haste for a final, fatal observation from the control bridge. This would tell him whether the Nomad was committed to a wilde plunge out into the no-return of deep space, or a course for Jupiter and rescue." I think he is doing something very risky because he could end up out in space with no retun home and he would die, but if he goes to Jupiter he would be a war prisoner but he would be able to stay alive for revenge. What would you do in a situation like his?-Ashlee Carson
A. Good question Carson(: I would take the risk instead of sticking around and waiting for death, but then again i dont wanna take a risk of plunging out into "no-return deep space" or anything. But if i would die anyway if i didnt so i would go for it. - Mindy Hayton
6. Pg. 18. "Death is my destination." Just by Gully Foyle saying this as his response to the question "Where are you bound?" you wonder if he either is speaking crazily, like he so often did, or if he knew it was all going to end in the fight for survival..- Joel Redfoot
A: I agree, that he may be speaking crazily, but also isn't everyone going to die someday. Maybe he was just realizing this, or maybe he thought, like Joel said, that he would die in his fight for survial. - Kyle Waite
I have to say that i think that he just wanted to die because he doesn't believe anything or anyone knows he is still alive and rather than just living in space alone he would just much rather be dead. He is just going to give up are trying to survive. - Jess Koch
I agree with Jess that he just wanted to die. Foyle's life really doesn't have a purpose and i think he realizes and accepts that death is his destination. -Taylor Vladic
I agree. He wants to die. He realizes there isn't much left for him to do in space. - Andrew Jackson
I agree with the few people above, that he's only thinking about death because it really seems that that's all that will go for him eventually. But I can't help but think that he was taught to think like that in the first place, long ago. Wasn't that a big thing on the planet he was from? Embracing eventual death?-Tim Galbraith
7. Pg. 15. "He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead." I really like this line. It helps readers understand the serverity of the situation. He is trapped, by himself, in a room the size of a closet for six months with minimum oxygen. I don't think I would be able to survive as long as he did. I would go crazy sitting alone in the dark with no one to talk to... Foyle is very strong for a "common man." -Janelle Meadows
A: You know, I read that line out loud randomly tonight and i thought the same thing. I really like that line. It's unique. To me, it's saying that he's waiting to die and just nonchalant about it. He's made his little life on the wrecked Nomad. - Kaylee Goldsworthy =]
A: I agree with you when you say that he is very strong for a "common man" because I'm not sure that anyone would be able to survive that long. I know for sure that I wouldn't because I'm clausterphobic. Plus being alone; I'd go insane because I'd start talking to myself and losing my mind. Like if you've ever seen the movie Castaway when he starts talking to his volleyball (or whatever it was), that'd be most people. -Kelcie Heverly
A: I agree with this because it would definately feel like dying being trapped with no where to go and no one to see. You would have to be a very strong person if you could survive & overcome something as harsh as being trapped in a tiny room out in the middle of nowhere for more then 170 days.. He has the mindset of a genius if he knows how to deal with these harsh and life threatening situations. Melanie Brown
8. Pg 16. "He had been content to drift from moment to moment of existence for thirty years like some heavily armored creature, sluggish and indifferent - Gully Foyle, the stereotype Common Man - ..." why do you think he is looked upon this way? i didn't
completely understand this section. i thought it out to be that people just saw him as a really educated and completely capable person, but he didnt have the motivation to do anything with that education. So, he was automatically labeled as a "Common Man". - Chynna Herman
- I agree with Chynna. What I have already read I thought people thought he was very smart and educated, but then they say he isn't at all. Why would they send someone to space who was not very smart, and they though was very lazy? - Megan Fanella
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9. Page 17. "Who are you? Gully Foyle is my name. Where are you from? Terra is my nation. Where are you now? Deep space is my dwelling place. Where are you bound? Death's my destination." I don't understand why Gully would ask himself this. From these questions and answers, the reader gets the impression that Gully has given up and is now just waiting to die. Or maybe Gully is just being honest with himself. Either way, if I were in his position, I wouldn't remind myself over and over my posible upcoming fate. Would you????? -Heather Gibson
I disagree with you Heather because he asks himself these questions, in my personal opinion, because he is reminding himself that death is always out there. That if he is not careful, he could die. Another possible reason he asks himself these questions is to make sure that he is alive. But I mainly think that he asks so that he can remind himself to be careful whenever he ventures out into space that day. -Bobby Yohn
Yeah I see where you're going with this Bobby but if he's telling himself to be careful, its not going to well cause every time he's gone out he's come close to running out of oxygen and blacked out. And that didn't lead him anywhere good with his "new wife" and so on. but on the other hand he did get back to Earth through this. -Nick Kratzer
Yeah Heather, I'm with Bobby on this one. It's like his own mind is making sure it's alive by asking these questions. Gully has probably trained himself to know the answer to these questions in the first place because he's a "common man stereotype." Who knows! Maybe he went crazy for the months he was in space and got bored. - Kaylee Goldsworthy =]
10. pg. 22 "the ship was alongside him one moment, passing him in a second, and disappearing the third."
Honestly, i would be so mad and upset about this, i wouldn't even know how to react. The one bit of a chance
to be saved he had, is now thrown away. - Haley Kline
I Kind of agree with Bobby. I think that since he is trapped in that little room, he repeats it to himself to know he's alive but also to remember who he is. Also to be careful becausem yes death is always out there and it is especially for him at this moment because he's trapped in space and with little oxygen and no way of contacting help.
I agree with Bobby too, but I would like to add that he has no one to talk too, so he has to keep reminding himself who he is so he doesn't forget. I also think that he knows that death is going to come either way. -Kyle Waite
10. Page 19 "Who are you? Gully Foyle. Where are you from? Terra. Where are you now? Space. Where are you bound?" It seems that every time he would pass out he would have this same dream. It was from a poem that he knew when he was younger. Everytime though that he would wake up, he was still alive, and he would always state that he was. - Megan Fanella
11."You pass me by. You leave me rot like a dog. You leave me die, Vorga...Vorga-T:1339. No. I get out of here, me. I follow you, Vorga. I find you, Vorga. I pay you back, me. I rot you. I kill you, Vorga. I kill you filthy." Obviously he is infuriated because it left him stranded after his distress calls for help, but why does he continue to refer to Vorga throughout the story? Also what do you think he means by killing filthy? When he says this i think he sounds like he might be going mad and wants to take all his anger out on the Vorga. He may have gone mad but i think this was very good because it gave him incentive to do something with his life instead of waiting for death. - Mindy Hayton
12. Page 22 "So in five seconds, he was born, he lived, and he died. After thirty years of existence and six months of torture, Gully Foyle, the stereotype Common Man, was no more." In this part of the book it means that Gully thought that he was going to be saved after being stuck in space for so long. He had all his faith in Vorga that the spaceship was going to stop. Whenever it passed him, it didn't stop. He was completly lost and so upset. He realized that that was the last possible time that he could be saved, and then realized that he would never be saved. - Megan Fanella
13. pg. 24 "he thought his way out of the deadlock, he was inspired by Vorga." Because this ship left him like that, he has all this
motivation to save himself now. this could be a good thing, considerding no one could ever do that before. -Haley Kline
I think this really shows how vengeance and hatred can be a true motive above all, not to go too deep but it really reflects this aspect human nature: You wrong me, I WRONG YOU BACK. -Tim Galbraith
14. The author talks about jaunting and how you have to know exactly where you're going. You might know where you're going but the story also says you need to know the elevation and your surroundings. So does that mean that you have to pretty much be an expert in geography and latitudes and l longitudes as well. If I'm on the right track at all I'm picking up that no matter who you are you're a rocket scientist. -Nick Kratzer
Following up with what Nick had to say, i agree with his train of thought. The story explains then when jaunting, the jaunter must know the exact location of where he or she is wanting to go, and all the details surrounding it. Since anyone is capable of jaunting with the right amount of effort and practice, then like Nick stated, no matter what your social status is, almost everyone is of a genius level. -Cullen Schimminger
15. On a seperate note though, Page 20 "Gully Foyle, a giant black creature, bearded, crusted with dried blood and filth, emaciated, with sick, patient eyes. . . and followed always by a stream of floating debris, the raffle disturbed by his motion and following him through space like the tail of a festering comet."
In this quote, the authout, Alfred Bester, is describing what Gully looks like when he sees his own reflection in the polished chrome of a leaf. He describes what Mr. Foyle looks like, but this frustrates me, because I ask myself several questions like, "where did the blood come from and how did it happen," and "what did Gully look like before he'd been trapped on this spaceship and had the opportunity to keep himself clean?" What I'm trying to get at is that a few extra lines of explanation would have cleared these simple questions up for me. -Cullen Schimminger
16. page 15- He was 170 days dying and not dead yet. I feel that the narriator if trying to give the impression that he has no chance for survival but will not give up at any costs. it gives reffrences that his mind is going bad and he has glimpses of sanity at witch he pleads tom god for help- Dustin Gardner
17. Pg. 20, "A man of physical strength and intellectual potential stunted by lack of ambition. Energizes at minimum. The stereotype common man. Some unexpected shock could possibly awaken him, but psych cannot find the key. Not reccomended for promotion. Has reached a dead end." In my view this is a very harsh and judgnmental society. Foyle is obviously a very brilliant man and maybe people just never had given him the chance to prove that. Just because he did not show his potential as any other man would have done they automatically assumed him worthless and talked of him as a very lazy and good for nothing man. Melanie Brown
1.pg.22. "So, in five seconds, he was born, he lived, and he died". In this text i believe "he was born" meant that there was hope for him to survive because of the Vorga, "he lived" meant that he thought of getting to saftey and how he would no longer have to face death, and "he died" meant that when the Vorga left he no longer had a chance of survival and that he was going to die. -Taylor Vladic
Taylor, I agree with what you had to say about what "he was born" and "he lived" means, but I have a slightly different opinion of what it meant when the author said "he died." i believe that instead of him no longer having a chance for survival as you suggested, the author was implying that he died inside. He lost all hope, his spirits were crushed, he was incredibly disappointed... ect. good post (: -Janelle Meadows
I agree with both Taylor and Janelle. I believe everyone would feel the same emotions, thinking that you are being saved from somewhere that you have been at for over six months and then realize you really aren't getting saved. The "he was born" and "he lived" means being excited for leaving this place. "He died" meaning that he wasn't getting saved and he lost all hope. - Jess Koch
i agree on this too. i think that he was excited to go and everything, but then lost his hope because he wasn't going to be saved.
its actually sad considering he was there for so long. - Haley Kline
I personally like the fact that after the Vorga passed him up he had pure hatred for them and wanted revenge on them which gave him the will to survive and find a way out of his terrible situation. -Nathan Kovach
2. Pg. 23. " In the control room he taught himself to use the few navigation instruments that were still unbroken, studying the standard manuals that littered the wrecked navigation room." I think that he is really doing anything he can to save himself. He is really taking a big risk by staying outside his room for long periods of times, but if he didn't, he would die, either way he has a chance of dying. If you were him, would you take that risk, or would you wait to see if Vorga would return, or guess that you are going to die and hope that maybe another ship comes and rescues you? -Bryant Sell
I think I would just stay in my room and wait for the Vorga to return. I wouldn't take the risk of dying and in the book he keeps blacking out and hallucinating, these things can cause brian damage and I don't think i would want/could take that chance. I would rather stay the same as before, you will eventually die if Vorga doens't come so why put yourself through that? _ Paiton Nipps
Bryant, you brought up some great points. I also believe that Gully wanted to survive from this misfortune. Also, having the will power to try to rescue himself and hold on to dear life is the best trait anyone could have! Gully, in my eyes, is not worthless. I think later in the novel, he'll prove that he isn't just an average Joe and Gully will prove that he has special talents like everyone else. -Heather Gibson
A: I dont think that I would wait and see if another ship comes to rescue me. That would be time waisted when I could have been doing something else to try and save myself. Yes, there is a chance of dying either way but if he tries to save himself instead of waiting, he will have a better chance of surviving. He does have a good chance because he uses different devices to help him get through, like the harness he created for himself and also what he taught himself.-Ashlee Carson
3. Pg. 23. "He would be a war prisoner, but he had to stay alive to settle accounts with Vorga-T:1339." What do you think he will do to "settle accounts" with Vorga if he remains alive? -Ashlee Carson
I wouldn't be very happy with worga either. so whatever he does would seem logical to me.
but when you are stuck somewhere alone like that for so long, and that happens to you, who knows what your
reaction would be to that. - Haley Kline
A: I think that he is willing to be a war prisoner if it means at least getting out of space and on some soild ground.I mean i wouldn't really care but then again i would want my freedom, so its kind of a win lose situation. If he ever did find the Vorga there really is no telling what he might do to them for not rescuing him and getting him off that piece of crap that he called a home for so long. -- Jameson Holsinger :)
I agree with Jameson on this one, but he isn't as driven by freedom as he is by revenge. I think that he'll go to all extremes in order to exact his revenge upon Vorga, and I don't think that he'll care what happens to him. Rather, I think he'll just destroy Vorga, even if it requires destroying himself. - Christian Graham
I agree with Christian because i believe that he will do anything he can to bring vorga down. At this point i think Foyle could care less about living or dying, all he is concerened with is revenge. -Taylor Vladic
5. Pg. 25. "He left the engine room and struggled forward in desperate haste for a final, fatal observation from the control bridge. This would tell him whether the Nomad was committed to a wilde plunge out into the no-return of deep space, or a course for Jupiter and rescue." I think he is doing something very risky because he could end up out in space with no retun home and he would die, but if he goes to Jupiter he would be a war prisoner but he would be able to stay alive for revenge. What would you do in a situation like his?-Ashlee Carson
A. Good question Carson(: I would take the risk instead of sticking around and waiting for death, but then again i dont wanna take a risk of plunging out into "no-return deep space" or anything. But if i would die anyway if i didnt so i would go for it. - Mindy Hayton
6. Pg. 18. "Death is my destination." Just by Gully Foyle saying this as his response to the question "Where are you bound?" you wonder if he either is speaking crazily, like he so often did, or if he knew it was all going to end in the fight for survival..- Joel Redfoot
A: I agree, that he may be speaking crazily, but also isn't everyone going to die someday. Maybe he was just realizing this, or maybe he thought, like Joel said, that he would die in his fight for survial. - Kyle Waite
I have to say that i think that he just wanted to die because he doesn't believe anything or anyone knows he is still alive and rather than just living in space alone he would just much rather be dead. He is just going to give up are trying to survive. - Jess Koch
I agree with Jess that he just wanted to die. Foyle's life really doesn't have a purpose and i think he realizes and accepts that death is his destination. -Taylor Vladic
I agree. He wants to die. He realizes there isn't much left for him to do in space. - Andrew Jackson
I agree with the few people above, that he's only thinking about death because it really seems that that's all that will go for him eventually. But I can't help but think that he was taught to think like that in the first place, long ago. Wasn't that a big thing on the planet he was from? Embracing eventual death?-Tim Galbraith
7. Pg. 15. "He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead." I really like this line. It helps readers understand the serverity of the situation. He is trapped, by himself, in a room the size of a closet for six months with minimum oxygen. I don't think I would be able to survive as long as he did. I would go crazy sitting alone in the dark with no one to talk to... Foyle is very strong for a "common man." -Janelle Meadows
A: You know, I read that line out loud randomly tonight and i thought the same thing. I really like that line. It's unique. To me, it's saying that he's waiting to die and just nonchalant about it. He's made his little life on the wrecked Nomad. - Kaylee Goldsworthy =]
A: I agree with you when you say that he is very strong for a "common man" because I'm not sure that anyone would be able to survive that long. I know for sure that I wouldn't because I'm clausterphobic. Plus being alone; I'd go insane because I'd start talking to myself and losing my mind. Like if you've ever seen the movie Castaway when he starts talking to his volleyball (or whatever it was), that'd be most people. -Kelcie Heverly
A: I agree with this because it would definately feel like dying being trapped with no where to go and no one to see. You would have to be a very strong person if you could survive & overcome something as harsh as being trapped in a tiny room out in the middle of nowhere for more then 170 days.. He has the mindset of a genius if he knows how to deal with these harsh and life threatening situations. Melanie Brown
8. Pg 16. "He had been content to drift from moment to moment of existence for thirty years like some heavily armored creature, sluggish and indifferent - Gully Foyle, the stereotype Common Man - ..." why do you think he is looked upon this way? i didn't
completely understand this section. i thought it out to be that people just saw him as a really educated and completely capable person, but he didnt have the motivation to do anything with that education. So, he was automatically labeled as a "Common Man". - Chynna Herman
- I agree with Chynna. What I have already read I thought people thought he was very smart and educated, but then they say he isn't at all. Why would they send someone to space who was not very smart, and they though was very lazy? - Megan Fanella
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I wonder why Vorga did not stop and rescue Gully if it wasn't a mirage.
9. Page 17. "Who are you? Gully Foyle is my name. Where are you from? Terra is my nation. Where are you now? Deep space is my dwelling place. Where are you bound? Death's my destination." I don't understand why Gully would ask himself this. From these questions and answers, the reader gets the impression that Gully has given up and is now just waiting to die. Or maybe Gully is just being honest with himself. Either way, if I were in his position, I wouldn't remind myself over and over my posible upcoming fate. Would you????? -Heather Gibson
I disagree with you Heather because he asks himself these questions, in my personal opinion, because he is reminding himself that death is always out there. That if he is not careful, he could die. Another possible reason he asks himself these questions is to make sure that he is alive. But I mainly think that he asks so that he can remind himself to be careful whenever he ventures out into space that day. -Bobby Yohn
Yeah I see where you're going with this Bobby but if he's telling himself to be careful, its not going to well cause every time he's gone out he's come close to running out of oxygen and blacked out. And that didn't lead him anywhere good with his "new wife" and so on. but on the other hand he did get back to Earth through this. -Nick Kratzer
Yeah Heather, I'm with Bobby on this one. It's like his own mind is making sure it's alive by asking these questions. Gully has probably trained himself to know the answer to these questions in the first place because he's a "common man stereotype." Who knows! Maybe he went crazy for the months he was in space and got bored. - Kaylee Goldsworthy =]
10. pg. 22 "the ship was alongside him one moment, passing him in a second, and disappearing the third."
Honestly, i would be so mad and upset about this, i wouldn't even know how to react. The one bit of a chance
to be saved he had, is now thrown away. - Haley Kline
I Kind of agree with Bobby. I think that since he is trapped in that little room, he repeats it to himself to know he's alive but also to remember who he is. Also to be careful becausem yes death is always out there and it is especially for him at this moment because he's trapped in space and with little oxygen and no way of contacting help.
I agree with Bobby too, but I would like to add that he has no one to talk too, so he has to keep reminding himself who he is so he doesn't forget. I also think that he knows that death is going to come either way. -Kyle Waite
10. Page 19 "Who are you? Gully Foyle. Where are you from? Terra. Where are you now? Space. Where are you bound?" It seems that every time he would pass out he would have this same dream. It was from a poem that he knew when he was younger. Everytime though that he would wake up, he was still alive, and he would always state that he was. - Megan Fanella
11."You pass me by. You leave me rot like a dog. You leave me die, Vorga...Vorga-T:1339. No. I get out of here, me. I follow you, Vorga. I find you, Vorga. I pay you back, me. I rot you. I kill you, Vorga. I kill you filthy." Obviously he is infuriated because it left him stranded after his distress calls for help, but why does he continue to refer to Vorga throughout the story? Also what do you think he means by killing filthy? When he says this i think he sounds like he might be going mad and wants to take all his anger out on the Vorga. He may have gone mad but i think this was very good because it gave him incentive to do something with his life instead of waiting for death. - Mindy Hayton
12. Page 22 "So in five seconds, he was born, he lived, and he died. After thirty years of existence and six months of torture, Gully Foyle, the stereotype Common Man, was no more." In this part of the book it means that Gully thought that he was going to be saved after being stuck in space for so long. He had all his faith in Vorga that the spaceship was going to stop. Whenever it passed him, it didn't stop. He was completly lost and so upset. He realized that that was the last possible time that he could be saved, and then realized that he would never be saved. - Megan Fanella
13. pg. 24 "he thought his way out of the deadlock, he was inspired by Vorga." Because this ship left him like that, he has all this
motivation to save himself now. this could be a good thing, considerding no one could ever do that before. -Haley Kline
I think this really shows how vengeance and hatred can be a true motive above all, not to go too deep but it really reflects this aspect human nature: You wrong me, I WRONG YOU BACK. -Tim Galbraith
14. The author talks about jaunting and how you have to know exactly where you're going. You might know where you're going but the story also says you need to know the elevation and your surroundings. So does that mean that you have to pretty much be an expert in geography and latitudes and l longitudes as well. If I'm on the right track at all I'm picking up that no matter who you are you're a rocket scientist. -Nick Kratzer
Following up with what Nick had to say, i agree with his train of thought. The story explains then when jaunting, the jaunter must know the exact location of where he or she is wanting to go, and all the details surrounding it. Since anyone is capable of jaunting with the right amount of effort and practice, then like Nick stated, no matter what your social status is, almost everyone is of a genius level. -Cullen Schimminger
15. On a seperate note though, Page 20 "Gully Foyle, a giant black creature, bearded, crusted with dried blood and filth, emaciated, with sick, patient eyes. . . and followed always by a stream of floating debris, the raffle disturbed by his motion and following him through space like the tail of a festering comet."
In this quote, the authout, Alfred Bester, is describing what Gully looks like when he sees his own reflection in the polished chrome of a leaf. He describes what Mr. Foyle looks like, but this frustrates me, because I ask myself several questions like, "where did the blood come from and how did it happen," and "what did Gully look like before he'd been trapped on this spaceship and had the opportunity to keep himself clean?" What I'm trying to get at is that a few extra lines of explanation would have cleared these simple questions up for me. -Cullen Schimminger
16. page 15- He was 170 days dying and not dead yet. I feel that the narriator if trying to give the impression that he has no chance for survival but will not give up at any costs. it gives reffrences that his mind is going bad and he has glimpses of sanity at witch he pleads tom god for help- Dustin Gardner
17. Pg. 20, "A man of physical strength and intellectual potential stunted by lack of ambition. Energizes at minimum. The stereotype common man. Some unexpected shock could possibly awaken him, but psych cannot find the key. Not reccomended for promotion. Has reached a dead end." In my view this is a very harsh and judgnmental society. Foyle is obviously a very brilliant man and maybe people just never had given him the chance to prove that. Just because he did not show his potential as any other man would have done they automatically assumed him worthless and talked of him as a very lazy and good for nothing man. Melanie Brown